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Comment on Of manna by Steve Kell https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2019/01/05/of-manna/#comment-8501
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:47:30 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17513#comment-8501It’s good to have friends…and days…like you described from time to time. And…to write a bit more “freely” contra laboriously has its benefits also–both to the author and the reader. 🙂 Hope all is going forward in good ways with you and yours.

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Comment on Proskuneo (2) by Brian Casey https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/proskuneo-2/#comment-8497
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:57:23 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=6085#comment-8497Thanks for your thoughts and what I take as sincere concerns. What seems to be missing is the realization that words change in meaning. The 1611 translation was incredible in its time.

Anyone who continually relies on one translation (whether a 400 years old or 50 or 10) may well unaware of basic human linguistic communication concerns. No serious student of Bible texts (you or me or anyone else) is ever interested in obscuring God’s will or desires. All translations interpret and make judgments. Every single one of them. No translation is free of interpretation. This is why continued study and comparison are important. God’s best to you.

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Comment on Proskuneo (2) by Dorcas https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/proskuneo-2/#comment-8496
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:12:50 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=6085#comment-8496Answer to Anne B.
Since your post was over 6 years ago, I don’t expect a reply. But I will say this, the KJV, written in 1611 is a reliable version, is it not? If it is not, please show me the soul destroying passages that take away any English speaking person’s ability to be saved, ie. to become a Christian, and also to understand how God wants us to live our daily lives and how he wants us to worship him. The problem with too many of the newer English translations, is that they do skew Bible doctrines that can effect your understanding of how to be saved, worship, and serve God. Therefore they can affect your Salvation as any misguided shepherd could do. Now let’s use my litmus test. Turn to Matthew 19:9 in any English translation and check to see if the Greek, pornea, is translated “fornication.”
A myriad of the newer translations have pornea to mean marital unfaithfulness or even just unfaithfulness as an exception to the innocent party being able to remarry in God’s acceptance. So what do those terms mean?
If you cannot trust a translation to accurately translate a basic word like pornea, what other deceptions might be found. I am all for researching the Hebrew, the Greek, and any other helps a person might have access to, but I will keep my personal study Bible as the KJV.
As an interesting note, Brother Robert Taylor writes articles on the different versions at times and I have seen him comment that the more he studies their errant parts, the more he goes running back to the KJV.
My prayer is that we seek God’said will. The dinamic equivalent versions attempt to interpret what God meant. I do not desire your commentary on what God said as much as I desire to know the words God has said to me. Words, in whatever language are important. You cannot convey thought without words. Therefore it is very important to get the true words.
Thanks.
P.S. Sorry if I spelled pornea wrong.

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Comment on Honors and tributes by Brian Casey https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/honors-and-tributes/#comment-8452
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:08:32 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17439#comment-8452Thank you, friend. The memory of “Old Man River” is strong with me, too. I believe I heard the last one of a few chapel presentations of that song, probably one or two times after you heard him. He would sharp on the sustained, high “mi” near the end of the song, but it was still strong, as you say. And the legacy of service is yet stronger.

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Comment on Honors and tributes by Steve Kell https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/honors-and-tributes/#comment-8451
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:20:23 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17439#comment-8451Thanks for sharing the link–I enjoyed viewing the establishing of your grandfather’s chair. I don’t believe I mentioned a chapel program in which ATR3 sang “Old Man River” — powerful presentation. As with so many, I am the recipient of his legacy of service.

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Comment on The shield by Brian Casey https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/the-shield/#comment-8427
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:22:10 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17359#comment-8427I’d affirm that any dedicated soul will find in any reasonable translation what is needed. Then there’s the old “Ethiopian eunuch” observation: that new believer wouldn’t have had any of what we call “New Testament” scriptures — probably for quite some time. He could have died without having anything written in the 1st century about Jesus to read, but he was surely OK for eternity, too!

As I know sure you recognize, it was important in this post to iterate and reiterate in different ways that dedicated souls must get behind the English word “faith.” If we stop there, we are limited to what has developed in our language, and I’m convinced that the pervasiveness of Christianese (here, I expressly include Reformed-ese and Roman-ese) language among English-speaking Christians has drastically limited our grasp of pistis in the pages of our New Testaments.

Thanks always for reading when you can. Glad you are safe on this side of the ocean now, but I know you look forward to your return to both precious places “over there.”

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Comment on The shield by godschildrenorg https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/the-shield/#comment-8424
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:29:17 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17359#comment-8424I especially appreciate this comment by you, Brian, “I do purposefully assert that it is the original word-concept to which we should appeal, not the word-concept that has developed around it—in another language, centuries later.” I do not know Greek — though I am studying modern Greek so as to be of better service in Athens…and read the labels on grocery items! People can play fast and loose with the words as we know them today. To ease my concern about this, Dan pointed out that a serious student of the Bible will find in modern translations what Jesus requires of us to spend eternity with Him. BTW, I’m in Dallas until Dec. 2 when I return to Athens. Jet lag, clock change…I’m a bit tired! ;-). Praying for you and yours, Anne

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Comment on About 1,956 years ago: a possibly intentional difference by godschildrenorg https://blcasey.wordpress.com/2018/10/12/about-1956-years-ago-a-possibly-intentional-difference/#comment-8362
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:41:00 +0000http://blcasey.wordpress.com/?p=17314#comment-8362Well, Brian, I hate to admit to ignorance, but my knowledge of English language structure is lacking! You are the first to mention mini-chiasm. It’s rather fun to stumble onto something clever! ~~ Anne in Greece